The DA wants the EFF and groups involved in violent protests to pay for damages they allegedly inflicted at universities.
Damage to buildings at universities has been estimated at about R150-million‚ and the costs should not be carried by the universities‚ DA youth leader and MP Yusuf Cassim said in a statement on Tuesday.
“The EFF‚ and other radical groups including #RhodesMustFall‚ needs to take responsibility for their rogue elements by heeding their own words and helping #paybackthemoney for these damages‚” the DA said.
“During a time when tensions in the tertiary sector continue unabated for lack of leadership‚ these radical groups‚ and specifically the EFF‚ have continually incited and perpetuated violence and instability through threats of war on campuses across the country.
“The DA has persistently called for calm and condemned violent protests‚ and has laid a complaint at the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) against one of the identified leaders in the EFF structure‚ Omphile Seleke‚ who has incited chaos and violence and the University of Pretoria (Tuks) campus in particular.
“We have also since laid criminal charges against the EFF for inciting violence on campuses relating to this same post‚ which set out how to make a petrol bomb. The post was shared by the EFF Student Command at the University of Pretoria.
“The EFF clearly cannot be trusted to bring about the change South Africa so desperately needs. The EFF has shown greater commitment to perpetuating violence and instability‚ than to finding solutions to the problems that our students face on a daily basis.”
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